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orders the Bishop of Bangor and the assize judges to look into it. _Cal. St. P., Dom., 1611-1618_, 53. 1611. Wm. Bate, indicted twenty years before for practising invocation, etc., for finding treasure, pardoned. _Ibid._, 29. 1611. Thirsk, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Cooke presented by quarter sessions for slight crime related to witchcraft. _North Riding Record Soc._, I, 213. 1612. Lancaster. Margaret Pearson, who in 1612 was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and the pillory, had been twice tried before, once for killing, and once for bewitching a neighbor. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the countie of Lancaster_ (Chetham Soc., 1845). 1612. Lancaster. Ten persons of Pendle sentenced to death, one to a year's imprisonment; eight acquitted including three women of Salmesbury. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_, Chetham Soc., 1845. But _cf._ Cooper's words (_Mystery of Witchcraft, 1617_), 15. 1612. York. Jennet Preston sentenced to death. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_. 1612. Northampton. At least four women and one man hanged. Many others accused, one of whom died in gaol. _The Witches of Northamptonshire_, 1612; also Brit Mus., Sloane MSS., 972, fol. 7. 1613. Bedford. Mother Sutton and Mary Sutton, her daughter, of Milton Miles hanged. _Witches Apprehended, Examined and Executed_, 1613. See app. A, Sec. 3, for mention of another pamphlet on the same subject, _A Booke of the Wytches lately condemned and executed_. See also _The Wonderful Discoverie of ... Margaret and Phillip Flower_, preface, and Richard Bernard, _Guide to Grand Jurymen_, III. 1613. Wilts. Margaret Pilton of Warminster, accused at quarter sessions, probably released. _Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 86-87. 1614. Middlesex. Dorothy Magick of St. Andrew's in Holborn sentenced to a year's imprisonment and four appearances in the pillory. _Middlesex County Records_, II, 91, 218. 1615. Middlesex. Joan Hunt of Hampstead, who had been, along with her husband, twice tried and acquitted, and whose accuser had been ordered to ask forgiveness, sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County
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